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[hippolotamus]

Tease Tidbit Tuesday 🫦

Tagged by @thewolvesof1998 @daffi-990 @wikiangela @disasterbuckdiaz Thank you loves 💖

I have zero explanation for this other than my brain latched onto a line from @thewolvesof1998’s snippet and spun it in a vastly different direction. So, uh, bon appetit 😘

Excitement and apprehension simmer under his skin. Twin currents spiraling together in an intricate dance along every nerve as he reaches for the dresser drawer.

For peace of mind, he spares a glance at his locked bedroom door to ensure it hasn’t slipped loose. He’s half tempted to walk across the room and physically check the lock. But that will only waste time he’s not sure he has. Christopher doesn’t need him as much these days but that doesn’t mean zero chance of intrusion. Especially if his son discovers a locked door.

Eddie could wait until tonight, after Chris is in bed, but it’s not a viable option. For all the waiting Eddie’s done, patiently holding back until the right moment, he decided he couldn’t anymore today. Not after continuously getting distracted while making a store list and doing laundry. Accidentally putting fabric softener in the wrong dispenser was the last straw.

He slides the drawer open and just looks at the neatly folded piles of socks and underwear concealing what he’s actually there for. Anxiety overpowers anticipation, making his heart beat faster and louder. As he pushes past it, thumbing through a stack of boxer briefs, a voice that sounds suspiciously like the priest from his childhood church shouts about sin and immorality. The voice becomes sharper when Eddie’s fingertips land on a distinctly different fabric.

Soft cotton is replaced by patterned lace. Still gentle, sliding between the pads of his thumb and pointer finger, but slightly rougher. The kind of delicate abrasion that feels pleasant against bare skin, like scratching an itch.

He continues to roll the material, not yet allowing himself to bring it into view. It was only a few days ago that he was able to get to this point. To touch and acknowledge the existence of the black cheeky shorts that he hid there two weeks before. It’s enough for now.

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[cloudbends]

[ID: a digital drawing of mitsumi and shima from the manga series "skip and loafer", depicted in their outfits as seen in the opening of the anime adaptation: a yellow sundress, and a blue buttoned shirt with a pink collar, respectively. mitsumi is leaning slightly forward and glances at shima while smiling widely, while shima tilts his head sideways and smiles a small smile towards mitsumi. both of their hands are behind their backs. the background behind them, out of which they stand out, is a frame of pale blue in which cherry blossom petals are falling. end ID.]

finally drew two of my favorites... they're truly everything

[buoyantsaturn]

me: references one tiny bit of obscure information from one of my 300+ fics

friend: wait which fic is that from

me: wow. fake fan :/

[emily-mooon]

Anybody got anymore Stacey rarepairs?

I’ve seen two others (Stacey x Ramona and Stacey X Kim) and I’m in rarepair hell with nordegrim atm. I also saw a yt comment with Stacey x Lucas lee but I see them more as friends.

I just wanna see more pairings with my girl in it. She’s underrated and I think she deserves to have some cool girlfriend or boyfriend (heck maybe even a qpp) :]

[eggbagelz]

critical reviews of barbie that arent horribly misogynistic. can i please have critical reviews of barbie that arent horribly misogynistic

[chiangyorange]

F!Mikey gets honorary peepaw status

I mean, canon never really says that f!leo is Casey's dad, we just all kinda decided he is and ran with it. And casey calls them both master

ur so right and i just KNOW that once wmas!fmikey enters the scene in the fic proper im gonna be fucking DESTROYED by the peepaw multiverse related stuff that might come from it

[altruistic-meme]

we may be feeling brain power?? just a smidgen??? shall we attempt to take control of it for a moment???

[throttlegainwell]

There's fic. Not a ton, but, uh... there's fic. So. Brain-permitting, I know what I'm doing this weekend.

[isabelguerra]

I don’t really care about shipping THAT much but honestly a lot depends on what about a pairing makes you like it. what about it draws you in, what doesnt, and why you want to change that thing. what it would become if you changed that thing, what changing that thing would do to it.

I saw a post about zukka the other day where OP was groaning about how many ppl make zuko into a babygirl for his long hair while acting like sokka is this hypermasculine hunter type, despite so much of his character deals with themes of inadequacy and wanting to make people around you proud/ take you seriously. also him liking shopping and arts&crafts and into theatre and writing poetry. OP said something like ‘it becomes about the viewers desire to fit a character to their own tastes, without considering who the character actually is’ which is such an eloquent way of putting it!

so when it comes to messing around with identities via ships its like… playing with gender and shit is fun! its good to explore and mess around and try things. if your outlet is through your favorite characters, hey, go nuts. but I think its really important to look at the way we feel and consider why we feel that way.

literally whenever i sit down to write something i go ‘okay. is this for me to be self indulgent and ooc. or is this to be faithful to the characters as they exist as narrative tools’ basically am i writing for Me or am i writing for Them. and i do both! but it just comes down to that I dont like taking characters out of the context of their stories too much. im a firm believer of ‘liking something because of something, not despite it’, so when it comes to m/f ships its like. okay well why am I drawn to this over a gay ship. do I think ‘damn i wish this was gay’ or is the fact that its mf add a little flavor. for me its all about the flavor

[lady-of-disdain]

Just a general blanket statement that anything regarding pet care in the fanfic I’m writing about a murder skeleton and a vet tech falling in love is not intended for “animal expert” critique, or to be duplicated in real life. ♥️😅

[daydreamerdrew]

Winter Soldier (2012) #15

[revunant]

TELL US ABOUT THE DEATH CULT

𝐀 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤.

Hrana T'sarat [literally Road Unreturning] were a group that believed, as many others in their society did, that God lay sleeping under the Earth's crust. Not much is known about them, owed to the fact that they were active over six thousand years ago - and to the fact that they were either exiled from their communities, or incredibly secretive (or perhaps both).

What differed between the uninitiated and members of the cult (not that they called themselves that) was that Hrana T'sarat not only believed their God to be the centre of the world, but also that She should be woken.

It was pretty much universally agreed that doing this would shatter the planet into pieces (they had stumbled upon the idea that the Earth is not flat almost by complete accident as part of their belief system long before the ancient Greeks did, but imagined it more of an egg shape than a sphere). Hrana T'sarat knew this, but believed it was the right thing to do; that humanity had yet to hatch, and those who assisted in the process would be greatly rewarded in the next life.

Turns out they were wrong about that, but sort of right about other things. Hrana T'sarat never succeeded in their endeavours, likely because they never found a worthy sacrifice to aid the process - or maybe because a sacrifice wasn't needed. There is evidence of Hrana T'sarat having multiple champions, but the role of these champions is not clear; whether they're high servants to the Goddess, or prophets, or even a mortal vessel possessed by her.

Their Goddess, Ekt [literally Silent Land, could also just mean Void; nowadays referred to as The Chasm] does sleep, but not inside the Earth. She is instead her own plane of existence, a limbo between this world and the next, and the dead pass along her spine on their way to their next destination.

Hrana T'sarat remained dormant for millennia, but were resurrected in the 1990's in Northern Europe (of all places, when their predecessors lived and died in Ancient Mesopotamia). Even more reclusive, they only really became known to the world when they just...started kidnapping archaeologists and anthropologists because how else are you going to get your information I guess. (Ironically, this sparks the series of events that will eventually bring about their downfall; Pieter would have had no interest in them if it hadn't been for his tutor's disappearance).

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐫.

Sarat Ilqum [literally Return - Nothing Else] referred to in some texts as Cihenim Lis'ekt [literally One Who Walks The Voidspine] was made to be partially divine, Ekt's blood running through their veins. They were said to be chosen either by Ekt Herself or one of Her children, and there are mentions of them being undying, but not immortal.

The cult only had one person in this role at once, sometimes leaving it vacant for years at a time - and not only was the process of becoming Sarat Ilqum a terrible one, they were thought to be kept in small prison chambers, deprived and frequently tortured. This was how Hrana T'sarat sought to wake their deity, by causing such a state of suffering in Her champion that she would no longer be able to sleep.

In wider society, there were two groups. Those who believed the initiation of Sarat Ilqum to be an act of heresy, and those who didn't; but who believed that subjecting what amounted to an extension of their Goddess' body to this kind of torment was the greatest sin a person could commit. It is due to this dissent that Hrana T'sarat was eventually overwhelmed and dispersed, likely by force.

In 1999, archaeologists discovered what they thought to be a sealed tomb, but what eventually transpired to be some kind of ritual chamber. At the centre, a stone font, with evidence of having been immaculately embellished with gems and bones and painted tiles - but more notably, with traces of having once held a substance that science has still been unable to identify.

Only two years following their discovery, all samples of this substance went missing from the biorepository in which they had been stored, and have yet to be found.

[seizedeath]

what if i made a mistake and went back to the most toxic rpc i was ever a part of

[mybrainproblems]

so like. watching 11x23 after having watched the rest of the show and taking time to chew on what the fuck dabbnatural is all about is so interesting bc there's a certain framing of chuck dying in 11x23 that... i'm not sure if it was intentional by dabb or just the way the editing shook out (either option is insane) but at first chuck seems to imply that his death and the death of the world isn't the result of imbalance, but it's that amara killed him and is now destroying the world. but then we learn from amara that no, the sun is dying bc she hurt chuck to the point where he is dying and that without creation there is only the nothingness that is her nature. the sun dying is the result of her actions but it's not a direct choice, just a consequence that she didn't really foresee. she has come to love chuck's creations, why would she choose to destroy that?

and it just fascinates me. bc watching 14x20 immediately after it's kinda like... was this intentional? there's a certain element of 11x23 that feels like as much as chuck says he doesn't want to hurt amara, he doesn't necessarily feel regret about what he's done, only how it turned out.

which again, could just be that the takes used in editing biased towards a less remorseful vibe from chuck. we don't know if there were other takes where rob played chuck as more remorseful but that's what we end up with. dean asking if chuck wants amara dead and him saying that even after all this, no. but still lying by omission that the sun dying is something amara is choosing to do.

like idk there's just a certain framing of that reveal and the fact that it initially comes from amara that is like. yes, chuck is dying but he's putting on his best meow meow act. if he's gonna die it may as well be as he's comforted by the characters from his favorite show. he may as well snuggle in close and send dean out to one more act of violence; to kill his sister. but this time he doesn't hold the trump card, he can't force dean to act out the violence that he wants from him. he chooses the reprieve he's been given and when amara get sick of his shit, he goes right back to playing with his favorite characters.

after all, they gave him such a good show last time.

and then i just have to wonder... would chuck have died if amara was destroyed by the soul bomb? if chuck dies, then amara lives (presumably bc she's uninjured) but if amara dies... even if he's injured, does chuck die? we only have his word that he would and in light of 14x20 and everything in s15 we have to recontextualize everything chuck has ever said in light of one thing --

writers lie.